New Brunswick

The Anglophone West School District in New Brunswick eliminated all 32 library positions after a $9.2 million budget cut from the province, with layoff notices delivered in April 2025. School district documents reveal that no impact assessment was conducted on students or schools before the decision was made.

Arbec Forest Products announced a six-week shutdown of its OSB mill in Miramichi, New Brunswick in September, with 29 permanent job eliminations out of 113 affected employees. The closure is due to a market-related inventory adjustment, with the company citing tariff impacts on US exports as the reason for the production pause.

The New Brunswick government has applied for a judicial review and stay of a labour board decision that ordered the province to rescind layoff notices for library workers in three school districts (Anglophone West, Anglophone South, and Francophone South) and reinstate reduced hours for school administrative assistants. Finance Minister René Legacy stated the government intends to proceed with the library worker layoffs once legally permitted, arguing library workers do not provide direct support to students.